No one liked me, for I was Welsh.

The advertisement was for a rustic cabin for sale 

Looking at the photograph 

I decided that rustic must mean beat all to hell 

Looking down at this aging body

One can see that I must be a rustic poet

And then 

From somewhere outside of my also rustic house

A dog began to bark

It barked for a very long time

James Lee Jobe 

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

Lazy man, I never put my hoses away

They lay wherever I drop them

I never bother to remember where either

I have spent my life walking around

Looking for the far end of hoses

I imagine finches watching me   or raccoons

All of them thinking me a fool --

Stupid man! 

He should put the hoses away!

Well, to hell with them all

I don’t have feathers or fur

And I don’t go around judging people

With poems on their minds

James Lee Jobe

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

-Hunter S. Thompson

I dreamed I was in a house in England, where one corner of one small room was in France. This room had a table where wealthy French people met and ate, and one little door that let out into France. In the English part of the house, no one liked me, for I was Welsh. They weren't mean, just cold and standoffish. Perhaps the French would like me, they kept saying. So I went into the French room, and they did like me! They loved me! They gave me ancient books written in script that seemed flowing and lovely. There was laughter, fine dining and music, and when it was time to go, they led me to the small doorway into France, not back to England. I walked into a rolling, sunny countryside of grapes. Suddenly, I could sing in French.

James Lee Jobe

I tremble with gratitude

for my children and their children

who take pleasure in one another.

At our dinners together, the dead

enter and pass among us

in living love and in memory.

And so the young are taught.

Wendell Berry

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James